Standard & Poor’s released its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices for April 2009 and the data showed the home price values continue to decline in year over year numbers but the pace of the declines has slowed slightly.  The 10-City and 20-City Composites declined 18.0% and 18.1%, respectively, in April compared to the same month in […]

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Many seniors are looking for advice on what to do and where to go and are looking for people that they can trust most importantly.  In response to this need, Emeritus Senior Living (NYSE: ESC) recently announced a partnership with the Financial Planning Association (FPA®) that will allow its more than 26,500 residents and […]

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The Senior Housing Investment Survey – Spring 2009 Edition, was provided by Senior Living Valuation Services Inc. and confirms trends that our readers are seeing in the marketplace nationwide.  The highlights of the Senior Housing Investment Survey include:

A material uptrend in overall capitalization rates for all senior housing categories from 2007 to 2009
The decline […]

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By Design Solutions, a company that provides marketing and management services to the senior housing industry, recently announced the launch of its Online Sales Tools.  The marketing solution, designed exclusively for budget-conscious retirement communities, provides professionally produced marketing materials through a low-cost monthly subscription service.  A subscriber has the opportunity to get exclusive rights to […]

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Senior Living Investment Brokerage (SLIB) announced two sales of senior living facilities in the Midwest that show senior housing inventory is moving even in the tough economic environment. Harbor House Assisted Living, constructed in 1995, was sold for $2,850,000 to a local assisted/dementia operator that hopes to capitalize on local management and efficiencies. The property […]

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Reverse mortgage endorsements for the month of May were 8,396, bringing the total number of endorsements to 50,261 units for the year, down from 11,660 in April.  While down sharply from the previous months, overall endorsement volume for the year is still trending 2.1% above last year’s levels.  Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Financial […]

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Emeritus Senior Living was awarded the Assisted Living Federation of America’s (ALFA) honorable 2009 “Best of the Best” award for the company’s efforts in sales and marketing based upon the launch of its brand identity campaign.  The award recognized the company’s focus on human resources and marketing that tied together the company’s culture and allowed […]

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Sales Simplicity Software (SSS), a software company specializing in sales automation, CRM and marketing for a broad range of industries, recently announced that it is now offering its solution tailored for the Assisted Living sector.  The SSS solution offers automation, CRM, marketing and a powerful suite of lead management tools that will offer Assisted Living […]

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A recent survey conducted by Horst Construction, a senior-market design and construction management firm, and Holleran Consulting, a marketing research firm specializing in the senior industry, show that the economy is affecting occupancy and retention rates for all types of senior living facilities in the Carolinas.  The findings are a result of one-on-one interviews […]

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Ever think about the problem of coming up with pricing to make a facility a viable choice when compared to home services?  A reader recently submitted a paper entitled, The Pricing Problem, that examines how an assisted living provider should price their facility to compete with home-care services through the use of “game theory”.  You’ve […]

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TrinityCare Senior Living, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: TCSR) ("TrinityCare" or the "Company"), which develops, manages and owns faith-based senior living facilities, announced its operating results for the first quarter of 2009 last week that showed that for the three months ended March 31, 2009, total revenues rose approximately 19% to $1,547,001, compared with revenues of […]

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Home prices in the United States continued their downward spiral in March according to the S&P Case-Shiller home-price indexes.  The S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index posted a 19.1% drop from a year earlier, the biggest quarterly decline for the reading’s 21-year history.  With this move down, home prices are now at price levels that […]

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